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Learning Markets creates courses, reports, webinars and articles to help investors learn how to invest and understand the markets. We produce content for some of the worlds leading financial publishers and online brokers.

Comprehensive Investing Courses

Whether you're an advanced trader or just
learning to invest we've produced highly
interactive online courses to help you improve
your investing results.

Technical Analysis Reports

Our comprehensive reports use detailed chart
analysis to cover technical events and provide
trading strategies to help investors make more
informed decisions.

Financial Publishing for Traders

Visit some of the leading financial publishers
online and you'll find the Learning Markets team
behind the scenes, developing robust content for
investors and traders.

Daily Market Commentary

We help connect online brokers to the markets. When
customers need to know what's happening in
financial markets they turn to our daily webinars.

Comprehensive Investing Articles

Since 2008 Learning Markets has produced articles
for investors to help them understand everything
from Options to Bonds to the Baltic Dry Index.

Quality Content Partnerships

Some of the world's leading financial brands have
turned to Learning Markets for articles, webinars
and consultation on new product launches.

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New! We've combined our all of our high-demand products into a single platform. Now, investors will be able to read articles, take a course, view Daily Market Commentary webinars and search through our technical analysis reports all in a single platform, available on the desktop and through mobile applications. For more access and to learn more about all the products and services we offer, register for free today.

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Technical Analysis Reports

We analyze the world's leading public companies in a way that makes sense to active traders. While fundamental metrics and price performance are important factors, our focus is on techncial impact events and suggested trading strategies. Everything is delivered in context — a recently released earnings report, the stock's current trend, an upcoming Fed announcement and more are all typical of the things factored in our analysis. Our reports are written by Certified Market Technicians — with experience and insight — not computers with bits and bytes.

Comprehensive Investing Courses

The team at Learning Markets has been developing online course content for investors
for well over 15 years. More than 100,000 investors have read through our course content,
submitted assignments and participated in live webinars. As a result we've been able to fine tune the course experience
so that investors can learn more, by applying skills in a supportive environment that encourages questions.

All courses are available to subscribers but participants can organize their learning into "tracks" which allows for focused learning on a specific task. While there are many tracks available, include tracks like "Investing for Income," two sample tracks are below.

Strategic Investing Track

You will learn how to build out a base portfolio with equities and ETFs and when to seek out strategic alternatives to protect and grow your portfolio.

Market Commentary and Free Resources

Learning Markets works with some of the world's leading online brokerages and financial publishers to provide various ways of connecting their customers to the live markets.

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Did something happen in the markets today? Were you wondering how this might affect your portfolio right now? Our daily commentaries provide a forum for investors to ask such questions and get live feedback and insight. We help bring calm and understanding to an otherwise chaotic atmosphere.

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Every Tuesday and Thursday Learning Markets analysts discuss trading strategies. We walk through when and how these strategies might be applied and leave plnety of time for investors to ask detailed questions. Our goal is to help investors learn more ways to trade and to make more informed decisions about those trades.

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We've written hundreds of investing articles and produced nearly as may "white board" videos for a variety of financial publishers. Our co-founders have also written several books about investing for McGraw-Hill.

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A Sample Technical Analyis Report

More than 15 comprehensive courses, organized into tracks.

Strategic Investing CORE: Diversification Management

Questions we consider in this first course: How diversified is your portfolio? Is your portfolio protected from the downside shocks that may hit it in the future? If you don't own stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, precious metals and a little cash, you aren't nearly diversified enough.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Spread Your Risk with Horizontal Diversificiation

Lesson #2 – Strengthen Your Portfolio with Vertical Diversification

Lesson #3 – Boost Your Returns with Strategic Diversification

Exchange Traded Funds

Every strategic portfolio needs a solid base. The strength of your base will determine just how successful your portfolio is going to be. One of the easiest ways to build a solid base is to use exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETFs put the power of diversification and cost control in the palm of your hand. Plus, thanks to the explosion of these funds in the industry, you can find an ETF for just about anything these days.

This course teaches you how to find stock and bond funds. We also explore other ways to diversify your portfolio, such as through real estate, commodity and even cash funds.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – The Basics of Exchange Traded Funds

Lesson #2 – Finding Stock Funds

Lesson #3 – Finding Bond Funds

Lesson #4 – Allocating Your Cash

Lesson #5 – Real Estate Funds

Lesson #6 – Commodity Funds

Individual Equities

Individual equities, because they don't provide instant diversification, typically have more upside potential than ETFs. Of course, that increased potential comes with increased risk as well, but if you're looking for growth, individual equities can work well for you — as long as you know what you're doing. This course will teach you how to analyze revenue and earnings per share, ways to assess management performance and understanding how Wall Street evaluates and affects stock prices. We finish with a review of relative strength and sector (or "top down") analysis.

Strategic Investing CORE: Position Management

Once you have built your base, this course helps you understand how to manage your base. In this course we cover position sizing, stop loss orders, scheduled rebalancing and dollar cost average. All great ways to tend to your investing garden.

Diversification doesn't do you much good unless your money is thoughtfully distributed across those various investments. Putting 90 percent of your money in one investment and the other 10 percent in your remaining investments won't do you much good. We start this course by helping you understand the benefits of position sizing.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Balance Your Portfolio with Position Sizing

Lesson #2 – Protect Your Portfolio with Stop Losses

Lesson #3 – Maintain Your Discipline with Scheduled Rebalancing

Lesson #4 – Add to Your Base with Scheduled Contributions

Generating Income with Dividends

Once you have established a strong foundation for your portfolio, you can start to put it to work for you with dividend payments. Whether you are looking to fund your retirement, pay for a child's education or simply provide a little extra spending cash, dividends provide great way to generate income. This course helps investors understand dividend yields, how to search for dividends and when to combine dividends with your growth strategy.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Understanding Dividend Basics

Lesson #2 – Search for Dividend Yield

Lesson #3 – Combine Dividends and Growth

Lesson #4 – Compound Your Returns with Dividend Reinvestment

Generating Income with Covered Call Options

If you’ve never traded options before and don’t know much about them, this course will be a great introduction for you. Options are a highly effective trading tool that provide a tremendous amount of flexibility and opportunity for your portfolio... if you know how to use them appropriately. That's why it's important for us to learn how options are created and the difference between a call option and a put option. we also cover how to determine how 'risky' an option is, what is driving the value of the option and how to read an option chain sheet.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Introduction to Covered Calls

Lesson #2 – Choosing a Strike Price

Lesson #3 – Choosing an Expiration Date

Lesson #4 – Executing a Covered Call Trade

Long Calls

This course starts with a review the basics of long call and put options to ensure you can make well-informed trading decisions. We make sure you understand how to determine your strike prices and exercise dates for various long call or long put buying decisions. By the end of the course you'll be posting option trading ideas for your instructor to review.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Choose a Strike Price for a Long Call and Long Put

Lesson #2 – Choose an Expiration Date for Long Calls and Long Puts

Lesson #3 – Executing a Long Call or Long Put Trade

Protective Put Options

Sometimes the best way to accelerate portfolio growth is to prevent losses from occurring in the first place. So how do you protect positions in your portfolio using options? The answer: you buy protective puts. In this course we learn how to buy protective puts and, much like the last course on put and call options, we talk about choosing expiration dates and strike prices that are optimal for your strategy. By the end of the course you will be expected to publish a protective put trade idea either for your instructor or for the community.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – An Introduction to Protective Puts

Lesson #2 – Choose a Strike Price for a Protective Put

Lesson #3 – Choose an Expiration Date for a Protective Put

Lesson #4 – Execute a Protective Put Trade

Technical Analyis CORE

Determining the trend is the first and most important step a technical analyst takes when analyzing a stock. Knowing whether a stock is trending or consolidating can be the difference between entering a winning trade and entering a losing trade. This course shows traders not only how to identify the primary trend by utilizing the myriad tools and techniques available to technical analysts but also how to confirm what they are seeing by analyzing the underlying, macro-economic forces that move markets.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Understanding Trends

Lesson #2 – Understanding Support and Resistance

Lesson #3 – Identifying the Trend: Dow Theory and Elliot Wave

Lesson #4 – Identifying the Trend: Technical Indicators

Lesson #5 – Identifying Support and Resistance

Lesson #9 – Identifying the Trend: Putting it All Together

Trend Sentiment

The U.S. stock market does not operate in a financial vacuum. It is impacted by the much larger currency, bond and commodity markets, whose reach extends around the globe. Knowing how these markets are behaving can give you a glimpse into the mindset of international investors and whether institutional money is likely to be flowing into, or out of, the stock market. We’ll also learn about market sentiment indicators — the tools traders use to read the “tells” of the other traders on Wall Street.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Intermarket Analysis

Lesson #2 – Market Sentiment Indicators

Lesson #3 – Intra-market Analysis

Bounces and Breakouts

Once a trader has determined which direction the stock is most likely to go, the next step is to identify and confirm an entry point. Traders typically encounter two obstacles at this point: 1) the number of methodologies and indicators that provide entry signals can be overwhelming; and 2) developing confidence in their ability to accurately identify these signals can be difficult. This course teaches traders how they can find and confirm the entry signals they are most comfortable with.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Bounces and Breakouts

Lesson #2 – Anticipating Bounces: Fibonacci

Lesson #3 – Anticipating Bounces: Elliott Wave

Lesson #4 – Confirming Suport Bounces: Candlestick Patterns

Lesson #6 – Confirming Bounces and Breakouts: Volume

Lesson #7 – Confirming Bounces and Breakouts: Technical Indicators

Lesson #8 – Timing Your Entry: Putting it All Together

Price Targets

Knowing when to enter a trade is important, but if traders don't go in to their trades with an idea of how far they are going to move, they can't position themselves properly to take advantage of the potential gains while protecting themselves from the potential losses. This course shows traders how to set realistic, evidence-based expectations for themselves and their trades so they can make informed decisions instead of flying by the seat of their pants.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Projecting the Move: Support and Resistance Levels

Lesson #2 – Projecting the Move: Price Patterns

Lesson #3 – Projecting the Move: Fibonacci

Lesson #4 – Projecting the Move: Putting it All Together

Price Patterns

Price patterns are visual representations of market psychology in action. They tell you when traders in the market are excited and moving, when they need to take a moment and catch their breath and regroup and when they are ready to get moving again. In this course, we help you get comfortable interpreting the subtle nuances that are a part of price patterns. Once you do, you will feel like you can see into the future.

The following comprehensive lessons are included in this course:

Lesson #1 – Identifying Price Patterns

Lesson #2 – Price Patterns - Uptrending Resistance Levels

Lesson #3 – Price Patterns - Horizontal Resistance Levels

Lesson #4 – Price Patterns - Downtrending Resistance Levels

Lesson #4 – Identifying Price Patterns in a Downtrend

Stops and Exits

Once traders have entered their trades, they need to understand how to provide adequate protection without limiting the potential for profitable performance. This course shows traders how they can protect their trades not only by using stop-loss orders at the appropriate price points but also by identifying appropriate levels to scale in to a trade that may carry a higher degree of risk.

Exit Your Trade

The most difficult question traders have to answer is when to exit their trades. Traders don't want to exit a winning trade too soon, but traders also don't want to give back profits if a stock starts to turn around. Traders don't want to lock in a loss by exiting if they don't have to, but traders also don't want to see losses mount as trades continue to run against them. This course shows traders what to look for to identify and confirm when a trade still has some room to run and when it has reversed course.